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CURRICULUM VITAE
Paul L. Harris
Date of Birth: 14th May, 1946.
Citizenship: British.
Languages: English, French, Dutch
Contact: Paul_Harris@gse.harvard.edu
1965-1968 B.A. in Psychology, Sussex University; 1st class honors.
1968-1971 D. Phil. in Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Oxford University.
1971-1972 Research Fellow, Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University, U.S.A.
1972-1973 Research Fellow, Experimental Psychology, Oxford University.
1973-1976 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University.
1976-1979 Reader in Psychology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1979-1981 Lecturer, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics.
1981-1996 Lecturer in Psychology, Oxford University, Fellow of St John's College.
1992-1993 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, U.S.A.
1996-1998 Reader in Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
1998-2001 Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Oxford.
2000-1 British Academy Research Readership.
2001- Emeritus Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford
2001- Professor of Education, Harvard University
2005- Victor S. Thomas Professorship, Harvard University
2007 Visiting Professor, Dept of Cognitive Studies, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris

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Awards and Honors
1998 Elected as Fellow of British Academy.
2005 Guggenheim Fellowship
2006 Elected as foreign member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
2007 Docteur Honoris Causa; Université de Rennes, France
2009 Elected as Fellow of Association for Psychological Science (APS)
2009 William Thierry Preyer Award: European Society for Developmental Psychology
2009 Docteur Honoris Causa; Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
2010 Morningstar Teaching Award, Harvard University
2011 Honorary Fellowship; Cardiff University, Wales
2013 Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Book award
2014 American Psychological Association (APA) Eleanor Maccoby award.
Professional activities
Former Editor of British Journal of Developmental Psychology; Former Associate Editor of
Child Development; Reviewer for: Science, PNAS, Psychological Science, Child Development,
Cognitive Science, Developmental Science, Developmental Psychology, Cognition, Mind and
Language, Human Development, Society for Research in Child Development Monographs,
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Development and Psychopathology, Journal of Child Psychology
and Psychiatry.
Referee for ESRC and MRC (U.K.), NSF (U.S.) and SSHRC (Canada).

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Publications
Books
Harris, P.L. (2012). Trusting what you’re told: How children learn from others. Cambridge, MA:
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press.
Talwar, V., Harris, P.L. & Schleifer, M. (Eds.) (2011). Children’s understanding of death. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Harris, P.L. (2000). The work of the imagination. Oxford: Blackwell.
Rosengren, K, Johnson, C. & Harris, P.L. (2000). (Eds.). Imagining the impossible: Magical,
scientific, and religious thinking in children. New York: Cambridge University Press
Harris, P.L. (1989). Children and emotion: The development of psychological understanding.
Oxford: Blackwell.
Saarni, C. & Harris, P.L. (1989). (Eds.). Children's understanding of emotion. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Astington, J.W., Harris, P.L. & Olson, D.R. (Eds.) (1988). Developing theories of mind. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Articles
Herrmann, P.A., Legare, C. H., Harris, P. L. & Whitehouse, H. (in press).Stick to the script: The
effect of witnessing multiple actors on children’s imitation. Cognition.
Harris, P.L. & Jalloul, M. (in press). Running on empty. American Journal of Play.
Heiphetz, L., Spelke, E.S., Harris, P.L., & Banaji, M.R. (in press). The development of reasoning
about beliefs: Fact, preference, and ideology. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Harris, P.L. & Lane, J. (in press). Infants understand how testimony works. Topoi: An
International Review of Philosophy.
Harris, P.L. & Corriveau, K. H. (in press). Learning from testimony about religion and science.
In: E. Robinson & S. Einav (Eds). Trust and skepticism: Children’s selective learning
from testimony. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.

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Harris, P.L., de Rosnay, M. & Ronfard, S. (in press). The mysterious emotional life of Little Red
Riding Hood. Contributions to Human Development. Basel, Switzerland: Karger,
Lane, J., Harris, P.L., Gelman, S.A. & Wellman, H.M. (in press). More than meets the eye:
Young children’s trust in claims that defy their perception. Developmental Psychology.
Hoicka, E., Butcher, J., Malla, F., & Harris, P. L. (in press). Preschooler' trust is sensitive to
variable intentions. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society
Ronfard, S. & Harris, P.L. (in press). When will Little Red Riding Hood become scared?
Children’s attribution of mental states to a story character. Developmental Psychology
Kim, S. & Harris, P.L. (in press). Belief in magic predicts children's selective trust in informants.
Journal of Cognition and Development.
Jukes, M. C.H., Zuilkowski, S.S., Okello, G. & Harris, P.L. (2013). Healthy skepticism: Do
adults trust health information from children in rural Kenya? International Perspectives
in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 2, 164-180.
Harris, P.L. (2013). Fairy tales, history, and religion. In. M. Taylor (Ed.). The Oxford handbook
of the development of imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.
Corriveau, K.H., Kim, E., Song, G. & Harris, P.L. (2013). Young children’s deference to a
consensus varies by culture and judgment setting. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 13,
367-381.
Luu, B., de Rosnay, M. & Harris, P.L. (2013). Five-year-olds are willing but four-year-olds
refuse to trust informants who offer new and unfamiliar labels for parts of the body.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116, 234-246.
Corriveau, K.H., Kinzler, K. & Harris, P.L. (2013). Accuracy trumps accent in children's
endorsement of object labels. Developmental Psychology, 49, 470-479.
Fusaro, M. & Harris, P.L. (2013). Dax gets the nod: Toddlers detect and use social cues to
evaluate testimony. Developmental Psychology, 49, 514-522.
Harris, P.L. & Corriveau, K.H. (2013). Respectful deference: Conformity revisited. In M.R.
Banaji & S.A. Gelman (Eds.), Navigating the social world: What infants, children, and
other species can teach us. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Smith, C. E., Blake, P. R., & Harris, P.L. (2013). I should but I won't: Why young children
endorse norms of fair sharing but do not follow them. PLoS One, 8, (3): e5910.
Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059510
Chen, E. E., Corriveau, K.H. & Harris, P.L. (2013). Children trust a consensus composed of
outgroup members – but do not retain that trust. Child Development, 84, 269-282.
Ganea, P. A. & Harris, P.L. (2013). Early limits on the verbal updating of an object's location.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 114, 89-101.
Harris, P.L., Corriveau, K.H., Pasquini, E.S., Koenig, M., Fusaro, M., & Clément, F. (2012).
Credulity and the development of selective trust in early childhood. In M. Beran, J. L.
Brandl, J. Perner & J. Proust (Eds.), Foundations of metacognition. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Fusaro, M., Harris, P.L. & Pan, B. A. (2012). Head nodding and head shaking gestures in
children’s early communication. First Language, 32, 439-458.
Cole, C.A., Harris, P.L., & Koenig, M. A. (2012). Entitled to trust? Philosophical frameworks
and evidence from children. Analyse & Kritik, 34, 195-216
Blake, P.R., Ganea, P. A. & Harris, P.L. (2012). Possession is not always the law: With age
preschoolers increasingly use verbal information to identify who owns what. Journal of
Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 259-272.
Harris, P.L. (2012). The child as anthropologist. Infancia y Aprendizaje, 35, 269-267, 276-277.
Pons, F., Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2012). Piaget and consciousness: Retrospect and
prospect. In E. Martí & C. Rodríguez (Eds.). After Piaget. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction Publishers.
Legare, C., Evans, E.M., Rosengren, K.S. & Harris, P.L. (2012). The coexistence of natural and
supernatural explanations across cultures and development. Child Development, 83, 779-
793.
Kim, S., Kalish, C.W. & Harris, P.L. (2012). Speaker reliability guides children’s inductive
inferences about novel properties. Cognitive Development, 27, 114-125.
Smith, C.E. & Harris, P.L. (2012). He didn’t want me to feel sad: Children’s reactions to
disappointment and apology. Social Development, 21, 215-228.

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Fusaro, M., Corriveau, K.H. & Harris, P.L. (2011). The good, the strong, and the accurate:
Preschoolers' evaluations of informant attributes. Journal of Experimental Child
Psychology, 110, 561-74.
Chen, E. E., Corriveau, K.H. & Harris, P.L. (2011). Children are sociologists. Anales de
Psicología, 27, 625-630.
Harris, P.L. (2011). Conflicting thoughts about death. Human Development, 54, 160-168.
Blake, P. R. & Harris, P.L. (2011). Early representations of ownership. In H. Ross & O.
Friedman (Eds.), Origins of ownership of property. New Directions for Child and
Adolescent Development, 132, 39-51.
Bender, P.K., Pons, F., Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2011). Do young children misunderstand
their own emotions? European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 331-348
Harris, P.L. (2011). Death in Spain, Madagascar, and beyond. In V. Talwar, P.L. Harris & M.
Schleifer, (Eds.), Children’s understanding of death. New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Harris, P.L. & Jalloul, M. (2011). Penser à ce qui n’est pas plausible. Approche
Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l’enfant (A.N.A.E.), 112/113, 131-136.
Bascandziev, I. & Harris, P.L. (2011). Gravity is not the only ruler for falling events: Young
children do not commit the gravity error if given rich perceptual information about the
tubes mechanism. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 468-477
Harris, P.L. & Corriveau, K.H. (2011). Young children’s selective trust in informants.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 366, 1179-1190.
Kinzler, K. D., Corriveau, K.H. & Harris, P.L. (2011). Children’s selective trust in nativeaccented
speakers. Developmental Science, 14, 106-111.
Corriveau, K.H., Pickard, K. & Harris, P.L. (2011). Preschoolers trust particular informants when
learning new names and new morphological forms. British Journal of Developmental
Psychology, 29, 46-63.
Corriveau, K.H. & Harris, P.L. (2011). Young children’s trust in what other people say. In K.J.
Rotenberg (Ed.) Interpersonal trust during childhood and adolescence. New York, NY:
Cambridge University press.
Bascandziev, I. & Harris, P.L. (2010). The role of testimony in young children’s solution of a
gravity-driven invisible displacement task. Cognitive Development, 25, 233-246.

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Ganea, P.A. & Harris, P.L. (2010). Not doing what you are told: Early perseverative errors in
updating mental representations via language. Child Development, 81, 457-463.
Harris, P.L. (2010). Les jeunes enfants choisissent leurs informateurs. Enfance, 62, 301-317.
Sprung, M. & Harris, P.L. (2010). Intrusive thoughts and young children’s knowledge about
thinking following a natural disaster. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51,
1115-1124.
Smith, C. E., Chen, D., Harris, P.L. (2010). When the happy victimizer says sorry: Children’s
understanding of apology and emotion. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28,
727-746.
Hussar, K.M. & Harris, P.L. (2010). Children who choose not to eat meat: A demonstration of
early moral decision-making. Social Development, 19, 627-641
Corriveau, K.H. & Harris, P.L. (2010). Preschoolers (sometimes) defer to the majority in making
simple perceptual judgments. Developmental Psychology, 46, 437-445.
Guerrero, S., Enesco, I. & Harris, P.L. (2010). Oxygen and the soul: Children’s conception of
invisible entities. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 10, 123-151.
Corriveau, K. H., Kim, A. L., Schwalen, C., & Harris, P.L. (2009). Abraham Lincoln and Harry
Potter: Children's differentiation between historical and fantasy characters. Cognition,
112, 213-225.
Blake, P. R. & Harris, P.L. (2009). Children's understanding of ownership transfers. Cognitive
Development, 24, 133-145.
Corriveau, K. H., Harris, P.L., Meins, E. et al. (2009). Young children’s trust in their mother’s
claims: Longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy. Child Development, 80,
750-761.
Harris, P.L. (2009). Simulation (mostly) rules: A commentary. British Journal of Developmental
Psychology, 27, 555-559.
Corriveau, K. H. & Harris, P.L. (2009). Choosing your informant: Weighing familiarity and
recent accuracy. Developmental Science, 12, 426–437
Harris, P.L. (2009). Piaget on causality: The Whig interpretation of cognitive development.
British Journal of Psychology, 100, 229-232.

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Corriveau, K. H., Fusaro, M., & Harris, P.L. (2009). Going with the flow: Preschoolers prefer
non-dissenters as informants. Psychological Science, 20, 372-377.
Corriveau, K. H., Meints, K., & Harris, P.L. (2009). Early tracking of informant accuracy and
inaccuracy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 331-342.
Corriveau, K. H. & Harris, P.L. (2009). Preschoolers continue to trust a more accurate informant
1 week after exposure to accuracy information. Developmental Science, 12, 188-193.
De Rosnay, M. & Harris, P.L. & Pons, F. (2009). Emotion understanding and developmental
psychopathology in young chidren. In C. Sharp, P. Fonagy & I Goodyer (Eds.) Social
Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp
443-386.
Koenig, M. & Harris, P.L. (2008). The basis of epistemic trust: Reliable testimony or reliable
sources? Episteme, 264-284.
Harris, P.L. (2008). Children’s understanding emotion. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland-Jones & L.
Feldman Barrett (Eds.), The handbook of emotions. 3 rd edition (pp. 320-331). New York:
Guilford Press.
Harris, P.L. & Richert, R. (2008). William James, the world of sense and trust in testimony.
Mind and Language, 23, 536-551.
Meints, K., Plunkett, K. & Harris, P.L. (2008). Eating apples and houseplants: Typicality
constraints on early verb learning. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 434-463.
Fusaro, M. & Harris, P.L. (2008). Children assess informant reliability using bystanders’ nonverbal
Cues. Developmental Science, 11, 781-787.
Richert, R. & Harris, P.L. (2008). Dualism revisited: Body vs. Mind vs. Soul. Journal of
Cognition and Culture, 8, 99-115.
Harris, P.L., Abarbanell, L., Pasquini, E.S. & Duke, S. (2008). Imagination and testimony in the
child’s construction of reality. Intellectica, 46-47, 69-84.
Astuti, R. & Harris, P.L. (2008). Understanding mortality and the life of the ancestors in
Madagascar. Cognitive Science, 32, 713-740.
Pasquini, E.S., Corriveau, K., Koenig, M., & Harris, P.L. (2007). Preschoolers monitor the
relative accuracy of informants. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1216-1226.

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Harris, P.L. (2007). Time for questions. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child
Development, 72, 113-120.
Harris, P.L. & Koenig, M. (2007). Imagination and testimony in cognitive development: The
cautious disciple. In I. Roth (Ed.). Imaginative Minds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harris, P.L. (2007). Trust. Developmental Science, 10, 135-138.
Harris, P.L. (2007). Hard work for the imagination. In A. Gönçü & S. Gaskins (Eds.). Play and
Development: Evolutionary, Sociocultural and Functional Perspectives. Mahwah, N.J.:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Pons, F., de Rosnay, M. Doudin, P-A., Harris, P.L. & De Stasio, S. (2007). Comprensione sociale
ed emotiva nei bambini. In M. Pinelli & C. Trubini (Eds.). Metcognizione, Emozioni e
Teoria della Mente. Parma, Italy: Uni.Nova.
Harris, P. L. & Astuti, R. (2006). Learning that there is life after death. Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 29, 475-476.
Richert, R. A., & Harris, P. L. (2006). The ghost in my body: Children’s developing concept of
the soul. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6, 409-427.
Harris, P. L. & Duke, S. (2006). Understanding the flow of thoughts and feelings. In M.
Schleifer, C. Martiny (Eds.). Talking to children about responsibility and control of
emotions. Calgary, AB, Canada: Detselig Enterprises, pp. 95-117.
Harris, P.L. (2006). Social cognition. In W. Damon, R. Lerner, D. Kuhn & R. Siegler (Eds.).
Handbook of Child Psychology, Volume 2: Cognition, Perception and Language, 6 th
edition, pp. 811-858. New York: John Wiley.
Harris, P.L. (2006). Commentary: Use your words. British Journal of Developmental
Psychology, 24, 253-261.
Harris, P.L. & Koenig, M. (2006). Trust in testimony: How children learn about science and
religion. Child Development, 77, 505-524.
Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., Harris, P.L., & de Rosnay, M. (2006). Helping children to improve their
emotion comprehension. In F. Pons, D. Hancock, L. Lafortune & P.-A. Doudin (Eds.),
Emotions in learning. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
Harris, P.L., Pasquini, E.S., Duke, S., Asscher, J.J. & Pons, F. (2006). Germs and angels: The
role of testimony in young children’s ontology. Developmental Science, 9, 76-96.

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Pons, F. de Rosnay, M., Doudin, P-A, Harris, P.L. & Cuisinier, F. (2006). Emotion
understanding as a reflective emotional competence: Between experiences and symbols.
In F. Pons, M-F. Daniel, L. Lafortune, P-A. Doudin & O. Albanese (2006). Toward
Emotional Competences. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
Pons, F., Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2006). Betydningen af barnets sprog og familiens
samtaleaktiviteter for barnets Theory of Mind. In C. Jantzen & T. Thellefsen (Eds.) .
Videnskabelig BegrebsdannelseU. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press.
Harris, P.L. (2006). It’s probably good to talk. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 52, 158-164.
Koenig, M. & Harris, P.L. (2005). The role of social cognition in early trust. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 9, 457-459.
Pons, F. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Longitudinal change and longitudinal stability of individual
differences in children's emotion understanding. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 1158-1174.
Houston-Price, C., Plunkett, K. & Harris, P.L. (2005). ‘Word learning wizardry’ at 1;6. Journal
of Child Language, 32, 175-189
Koenig, M. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Preschoolers mistrust ignorant and inaccurate speakers. Child
Development, 76, 1261-1277.
Giménez-Dasí, M, Guerrero, S. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Intimations of immortality and
omniscience in early childhood. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2, 285-
297.
Corriveau, K., Pasquini, E.S., & Harris, P.L. (2005). “If it’s in your mind, it’s in your
knowledge”: Children’s developing anatomy of identity. Cognitive Development, 20,
321-340.
Dias, M., Roazzi, A. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Reasoning from unfamiliar premises: A study with
unschooled adults. Psychological Science, 16, 550-554.
Dias, M.G., Roazzi, A., O’Brien, P. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Logical reasoning and fantasy
contexts: Eliminating differences between children with and without experience in
school. Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 39, 13-22.
Harris, P.L. & Giménez, M. (2005). Children’s acceptance of conflicting testimony: The case of
death. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5, 143-164.
Harris, P.L., de Rosnay, M. & Pons, F. (2005). Language and children’s understanding of mental
states. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 69-73.

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Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., Harris, P.L., & de Rosnay (2005). La compréhension des émotions
(Understanding emotions). In L. Lafortune, M.-F. Daniel, P.-A. Doudin, F. Pons & O.
Albanese (Eds.), Pédagogie et psychologie des émotions, pp. 183-206. Sainte-Foy:
Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Harris, P.L. & Want, S. (2005). On learning what not to do: The emergence of selective imitation
in tool use by young children. In S. Hurley & N. Chater (Eds.) Perspectives on Imitation:
From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Volume 2, pp. 149-162. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
Harris, P.L. (2005). Grasping action. In S. Hurley & N. Chater (Eds.) Perspectives on Imitation:
From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Volume 2, pp 173-178. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press.
Harris, P.L. (2005). Conversation, pretence, and theory of mind. In J.W. Astington and J. Baird
(Eds.). Why language matters for theory of mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pons, F., Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2004). Emotion comprehension between 3 and 11 years:
Developmental periods and hierarchical organization. European Journal of
Developmental Psychology, 1, 127-152.
Meints, K., Plunkett, K., Harris, P.L. & Dimmock, D. (2004). The cow on the high street: effects
of background context on early naming. Cognitive Development, 19, 275-290.
Koenig, M., Clément, F. & Harris, P.L. (2004). Trust in Testimony: Children's use of true and
false statements. Psychological Science, 10, 694-698.
Clément, F., Koenig, M., & Harris, P.L. (2004). The ontogenesis of trust in testimony. Mind and
Language, 19, 360-379.
Tenenbaum, H. R., Visscher,P., Pons,F. & Harris, P.L. (2004). Emotional understanding in
Quechua children from an agro-pastoralist village. International Journal of Behavioural
Development, 28, 471-478.
De Rosnay, M., Pons, F., Harris, P.L., & Morrell, J.M.B. (2004). A lag between understanding
false belief and emotion attribution in young children: relationships with linguistic ability
and mothers’ mental state language. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22,
197-218.
Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., Martin, D., Lafortune, L., & Harris, P.L. (2004). Psychogenèse de la
conscience et pensée réflexive. In R. Pallascio, M.-F. Daniel & L. Lafortune (Eds.),
Pensée et réflexivité, pp. 13-36. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Université du Québec.

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Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., & Harris, P.L. (2004). La compréhension des émotions: développement,
différences individuelles, causes et interventions (Understanding emotion: development,
individual differences, causes and interventions). In L. Lafortune, P.-A. Doudin, F. Pons
& D. R. Hancock (Eds.), Les émotions à l’école (pp. 6-31). Sainte-Foy: Presses de
l’Université du Québec.
Harris, P.L. (2004). Pretending to be someone else. In L.A. Leavitt & D.M.B. Hall (Eds.), Social
and moral development: Emerging evidence on the toddler years, pp. 185-199. Johnson
& Johnson Pediatric Institute.
Pons, F., Lawson, J. Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2003). Individual differences in children’s
emotion understanding: Effects of age and language. Scandinavian Journal of
Psychology, 44, 347-353.
Harris, P.L. (2003). Les dieux, les ancêtres et les enfants (Gods, ancestors and children). Terrain,
40, 81-98.
Harris, P.L. & Pons, F. (2003). Perspectives actuelles sur le développement de la compréhension
des émotions chez l’enfant. (Contemporary perspectives on the development of children’s
understanding of emotion). In J-M Colletta & A. Tcherkassof (Eds.) Les émotions:
Cognition, Langage et développement, pp. 209-228. Sprimont: Pierre Mardaga.
Pons, F., Harris, P.L., & Doudin, P-A. (2002). Teaching emotion understanding. European
Journal of Psychology of Education, 17, 293-304.
Pons, F., Doudin, P.-A., Harris, P.L., & de Rosnay, M. (2002). Métaémotion et intégration
scolaire. In L. Lafortune & P. Mongeau (Eds.), L'affectivité dans l'apprentissage (pp. 7-
28). Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Université du Québec.
Harris, P.L. (2002). Checking our sources: the origins of trust in testimony. Studies in the History
and Philosophy of Science, 33, 315-333.
Harris, P.L. (2002). Penser à ce qui aurait pu se produire. (Thinking about what could have
happened). Enfance, 54, 223-239.
Harris, P.L. (2002). What do children learn from testimony? In P. Carruthers, S. P. Stich & M.
Siegal (Eds.). The cognitive basis of science, (pp. 316-334). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Giménez, M. & Harris, P.L. (2002). Understanding constraints on inheritance: Evidence for
biological thinking in early childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20,

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307-324.
De Rosnay, M. & Harris, P.L. (2002). Individual differences in children’s understanding of
emotion: The role of attachment. Attachment and Human Development, 4, 39-54.
Harris, P.L. (2002). Delving into Uncle Albert’s cabinet: further thoughts on the pretence-relaity
distinction. Developmental Science, 419-421.
Want, S.C. & Harris, P.L. (2002). Compounding some problems and dissolving others.
Developmental Science, 5, 39-41.
Want, S.C. & Harris, P.L. (2002). How do children ape? Applying concepts from the study of
non-human primates to the developmental study of ‘imitation’ in children.
Developmental Science, 5, 1-13.
Meints, K, Plunkett, K., Harris, P.L. & Dimmock, D. (2002). What is ‘on’ and ‘under’ for 15-,
18- and 24-month-olds? Typicality effects in early comprehension of spatial prepositions.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20, 113-130.
Harris, P.L., Núñez, M. & Brett, C. (2001). Let’s swap: Early understanding of social exchange
by British and Nepali children. Memory and Cognition, 29, 757-764.
Pons, F. & Harris, P.L. (2001). Piaget’s conception of the development of consciousness: An
examination of two hypotheses. Human Development, 44, 220-227.
Harris, P.L. (2001). Thinking about the unknown. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 494-498.
Harris, P.L. (2001). The veridicality assumption. Mind and Language, 16, 247-262.
Figueras-Costa, B. & Harris, P.L. (2001). Theory of mind in deaf children: A non-verbal test of
false belief understanding. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 6:2, 92-102.
Want, S. C. & Harris, P.L. (2001). Learning from other people’s mistakes: Causal understanding
in learning to use a tool. Child Development, 72, 431-443.
Pons, F., Harris, P.L. & de Rosnay, M. (2000). La compréhension des émotions chez l’enfant.
Psychoscope, 9, 30-32.
Leevers, H. & Harris, P.L. (2000). Counterfactual syllogistic reasoning in normal 4-year-olds,
children with learning disabilities, and children with autism. Journal of Experimental
Child Psychology, 76, 64-87.
Harris, P. L. (2000). On not falling down to earth: Children’s metaphysical questions. In R.

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Rosengren, C. Johnson & P.L. Harris (Eds.). Imagining the impossible: Magical,
scientific, and religious thinking in children. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Harris, P.L. (2000). Understanding emotion. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland-Jones (Eds.). Handbook
of emotions (2 nd edition). New York: Guildford Press.
Rall, J. & Harris, P.L. (2000). In Cinderella’s slippers? Story comprehension from the
protagonist’s point-of-view. Developmental Psychology, 36, 202-208.
Harris, P.L. & Leevers, H. (2000). Pretending, imagery and self-awareness in autism. In S.
Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg & D. Cohen (Eds.). Understanding other minds:
Perspectives from autism and cognitive neuroscience (2 nd edition), pp.182-202. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Harris, P.L. (1999). Individual differences in understanding emotion: the role of attachment
status and psychological discourse. Attachment and Human Development, 1, 307-324.
Harris, P.L., & Leevers, H.J. (2000). Reasoning from false premises. In P. Mitchell & K. Riggs
(Eds.), Children’s reasoning and the mind (pp. 67-86). Hove, U.K.: Psychology Press.
Kavanaugh, R.D. & Harris, P.L. (1999). Pretense and counterfactual thought in young children.
In L. Balter & C.S. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Child psychology: A handbook of
contemporary issues (pp. 158-176). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Harris, P.L. (1999). Acquiring the art of conversation: Children’s developing conception of their
conversation partner. In M. Bennett (Ed.) Developmental Psychology: Achievements and
prospects. London: Psychology Press.
Mareschal, D., Harris, P.L. & Plunkett, K. (1999). A computational and neuropsychological
account of object-oriented behaviours in infancy. Developmental Science, 2, 306-317.
Meints, K., Plunkett, K. & Harris, P.L. (1999). When does an ostrich become a bird? The role of
typicality in early word comprehension. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1072-1078.
Leevers, H. & Harris, P.L. (1999). Persisting effects of instruction on young children’s syllogistic
reasoning. Thinking and Reasoning, 5, 145-173.
Meerum Terwogt, M., Rieffe, C. Tuijn, A.H., Harris, P.L. & Mant, I. (1999). Children’s
spontaneous correction of false beliefs in a conversation partner. International Journal of
Behavioural Development, 23, 113-124.
Polak, A. & Harris, P.L. (1999). Deception by young children following noncompliance.
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Schafer, G., Plunkett, K. & Harris, P.L. (1999). What’s in a name? Lexical knowledge drives
infants’ visual preferences in the absence of referential input. Developmental Science, 2,
187-194.
Harris, P.L. (1998). Fictional absorption: emotional responses to make-believe. In S. Bråten (Ed.)
Intersubjective communication and emotion in early ontogeny, pp. 336-353. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Harris, P.L. (1998). Mimesis, imagination and role-play. In C. Renfrew and C. Scarre (Eds.)
Cognition and material culture: The archaeology of symbolic storage Cambridge:
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Núñez, M. & Harris, P.L. (1998). Psychological and deontic concepts: Separate domains or
intimate connection? Mind and Language, 13, 153-170.
Harris, P.L. (1998). Feeling happy, feeling sad: How young children talk about and hide emotion.
Karger Gazette, No. 62, 1-3
Leevers, H. & Harris, P.L. (1998). Drawing impossible entities: A measure of the imagination in
children with autism, children with learning difficulties, and normal four-year-old
children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 39, 399-410.
Mareschal, D., Harris, P.L. & Plunkett, K. (1997). Effects of linear and angular velocity on 2-, 4-
and 6-month-olds’ visual pursuit behaviors. Infant Behavior and Development, 21, 435-
448.
Harris, P.L. (1997). The last of the magicians? Children, scientists and the invocation of hidden
causal powers. Child Development, 68, 1018-1020.
Harris, P.L. & Jones, P.H.D. (1997). Commentary on “Talking about feelings” (Aldridge &
Wood, 1997). Child Abuse and Neglect, 21, 1217-1220.
Harris, P.L. (1997). A bridge too far: Rationalism and the child’s theory of mind. Polish
Quarterly of Developmental Psychology, 3, 231-233.
Harris, P.L. (1997). On realizing what might have happened instead. Polish Quarterly of
Developmental Psychology, 3, 161-176.
Kavanaugh, R.D., Eizenman, E.R., & Harris, P.L. (1997). Children’s understanding of pretense
expressions of independent agency. Developmental Psychology, 33, 764-770.

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Harris, P.L. (1997). Between strange situations and false beliefs: Working models and theories of
mind. In W. Koops, J.B. Hoeksma & D.C. van den Boom (Eds.) Development of
interaction and attachment: traditional and non-traditional approaches. North Holland:
Amsterdam.
Harris, P.L. & Núñez, M. (1997). Children's understanding of permission and obligation. In L.
Smith, J. Dockrell & P. Tomlinson (Eds.) Piaget, Vygotsky and beyond. London:
Routledge.
Harris, P.L., Kavanaugh, R.D. & Dowson, L. (1997). The depiction of imaginary
transformations: Early comprehension of a symbolic function. Cognitive Development,
12, 1-19.
Harris, P.L. (1997). Piaget in Paris: From ‘Autism’ to logic. Human Development, 40, 109-123.
Harris, P.L., German, T. & Mills, P. (1996). Children’s use of counterfactual thinking in causal
reasoning. Cognition, 61, 233-259.
Harris, P.L. & Núñez, M. (1996). Children’s understanding of permission rules. Child
Development, 67, 1572-1591.
Harris, P.L. (1996). Desires, beliefs and language. In P. Carruthers & P.K. Smith (Eds.), Theories
of theories of mind. (pp. 200-220). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mareschal, D., Plunkett, K., & Harris, P.L. (1995). Developing object permanence: A
connectionist model. In J.D. Moore & J.F. Lehman (Eds.). Proceedings of the
Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 170-175).
Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Harris, P.L. (1995). Commentary. Human Development , 38, 235-238.
Harris, P.L. (1995). Imagining and pretending. In M. Davies & T. Stone (Eds.), Mental
Simulation. (pp. 170-184). Oxford: Blackwell.
Harris, P.L. (1995). Children's awareness and lack of awareness of emotion. In D. Cicchetti &
S.L. Toth (Eds.), Rochester symposium on developmental psychopathology. Volume VI:
Emotion, cognition, representation. (pp. 35-57). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester
Press.
Wellman, H.M., Harris, P.L., Banerjee, M. & Sinclair, A. (1995). Early understanding of
emotion: Evidence from natural language. Cognition and Emotion, 9, 117-149.
Harris, P.L. (1995). The rise of introspection. Society for Research in Child Development

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Monographs, 60, Serial No. 243, 97-103.
Lake, N., Lane, S. & Harris, P.L. (1995). The expectation of guilt and resistance to temptation.
Early Development and Parenting, 4, 63-75.
Harris, P.L. (1995). Developmental constraints on emotion categories. In J. Russell (Ed.)
Everyday conceptions of emotion. (pp. 353-372). Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer.
Harris, P.L. (1995). The child's concept of emotion: An introduction. In J. Russell (Ed.) Everyday
conceptions of emotions. (pp. 283-287). Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer.
Izard, C.E. & Harris, P.L. (1995). Emotional development and developmental psychopathology.
In D. Cicchetti & D.J. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 1.
(pp.467-503). New York: Wiley.
Kavanaugh, R.D. & Harris, P.L. (1994). Imagining the outcome of pretend transformations:
Assessing the competence of normal and autistic children. Developmental Psychology,
30, 847-854.
Harris, P.L., Kavanaugh, R.D., & Meredith, M.C. (1994). Young children's comprehension of
pretend episodes: The integration of successive actions. Child Development, 65, 16-30.
Johnson, C.N. & Harris, P.L. (1994). Magic: Special but not excluded. British Journal of
Developmental Psychology, 12, 35-51.
Harris, P.L. (1994). Unexpected, impossible and magical events: children's reactions to causal
violations. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, 1-7.
Harris, P.L. (1994). Understanding pretence. In C. Lewis & P. Mitchell, (Eds.), The origins of an
understanding of mind. Brighton, Sussex: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Harris, P.L., Lillard, A., & Perner, J. (1994). Triangulating pretence. In C. Lewis & P. Mitchell,
(Eds.), The origins of an understanding of mind. Brighton, Sussex: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
Harris, P.L. (1994). Thinking by children and scientists: False analogies and neglected
similarities. In L.A. Hirschfeld & S.A. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the mind: Domain
specificity in cognition and culture. (pp. 294-315). New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Jarrold, C., Smith, P., Boucher, J., Harris, P.L. (1994). Comprehension of pretense in children
with autism. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 24, 433-455.

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Harris, P.L. (1994). The child's understanding of emotion: Developmental change and the family
environment. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 35, 3-28.
Harris, P.L. (1993). Thinking about what is not the case. International Journal of Psychology, 28,
693-707.
Walker-Andrews, A.S. & Harris, P.L. (1993). Young children's comprehension of pretend causal
sequences. Developmental Psychology, 29, 915-921.
Meerum Terwogt, M. & Harris, P.L. (1993). Understanding of emotion. In M. Bennett (Ed.), The
child as psychologist. (pp. 62-86). Hemel Hemsptead, U.K.:Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Harris, P.L. (1993) Pretending and planning. In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, and D.
Cohen (Eds.), Understanding other minds; perspectives from autism. (pp. 228-246).
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Harris, P.L. (1993). First-person current: commentary on Gopnik and Goldman. Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, 16.
Harris, P.L. & Kavanaugh, R.D. (1993). Young children's understanding of pretense. Society for
Research in Child Development Monographs. (Serial No. 231).
Harris, P.L. (1993). Understanding emotion. in M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Eds.), The handbook of
emotions. (pp. 237-246). New York: Guilford Press.
Peng, M., Johnson, C., Pollock, J., Glasspool, R. & Harris, P.L. (1992). Training young children
to acknowledge mixed emotions. Development and Psychopathology, 6, 387-401.
Harris, P.L. (1992). From simulation to folk psychology: The case for development. Mind and
Language, 7, 120-144.
Harris, P.L., Brown, E., Marriott, C. Whittall, S., & Harmer, S. (1991). Monsters, ghosts and
witches: testing the limits of the fantasy-reality distinction. British Journal of
Developmental Psychology, 9, 105-123.
Avis, J. & Harris, P.L. (1991). Belief-desire reasoning among Baka children: Evidence for a
universal conception of mind. Child Development, 62, 460-467.
Harris, P.L. (1991). Commentary on "A life-span approach to object permanence." Human
Development, 34, 138-142.
Harris, P.L. (1991). Uneasy union and neglected children: Cultural Psychology and its prospects.
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Reissland, N. & Harris, P.L. (1991). Children's use of display rules in pride-eliciting situations.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9, 431-435.
Sodian, B. Taylor, C., Harris, P.L., & Perner, J. (1991). Early deception and the child's theory of
mind: False trails and genuine markers. Child Development, 62, 468-483.
Tan, J. & Harris, P.L. (1991). Autistic children understand seeing and wanting. Development and
Psychopathology, 3, 163-174.
Harris, P.L. (1991). The work of the imagination. In A. Whiten (Ed.) Natural theories of mind.
Oxford: Blackwell.
Dias, M. & Harris, P.L. (1990). The influence of the imagination on reasoning by young children.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 305-318.
Harris, P.L. (1990). Het kind as "mentalist". Opvattingen over het emotionele proces bij jonge
kinderen. In J. de Wit, N.W. Slot, H.M.P. van Leeuwen en M. Meerum Terwogt (Eds.),
Paedologie in de jaren negentig. Amersfoort, Holland: Acco.
Harris, P.L. (1990). The nature of everyday science: A commentary. British Journal of
Developmental Psychology, 8, 299-303.
Harris, P.L. (1990). The child's theory of mind and its cultural context. In G. E. Butterworth and
P.E. Bryant (Eds.), The causes of development. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Harris, P.L. (1989). Developmental change in children's understanding of mixed and masked
emotions. In A. de Ribaupierre (Ed.), Transition mechanisms in child development, pp.
191-213. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Harris, P.L. (1989). The autistic child's impaired conception of mental states. Development and
Psychopathology, 1, 191-195.
Harris, P.L., Johnson, C.N., Hutton, D., Andrews, G., & Cooke, T. (1989). Young children's
theory of mind and emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 3, 379-400.
Dias, M.G. & Harris, P.L. (1989). O raciocinio das criancas em um contexto de faz-de-conta.
Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 41, 102-113.
Harris, P.L. (1989). Object permanence in infancy. In A Slater and G. Bremner (Eds.), Infant
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Harris, P.L. & Saarni, C. (1989). Children’s understanding of emotion: an introduction. In C.
Saarni & P.L. Harris (Eds.). Children's understanding of emotion. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Harris, P.L. & Lipian, M. (1989). Understanding emotion and experiencing emotion. In C. Saarni
& P.L. Harris (Eds.). Children's understanding of emotion. New York: Cambridge
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Dias, M.G. & Harris P.L. (1989). O efeito da brincadeira de "faz-de-conta" no raciocinio
dedutivo. Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 41, No. 2, 95-105.
Harris, P.L. & Gross, D. (1988). Children's understanding of real and apparent emotion. In J. W.
Astington, P.L. Harris & D.R. Olson (Eds.). Developing theories of mind. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Dias, M.G. & Harris, P.L. (1988). The effect of make-believe on deductive reasoning. British
Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6, 207-221.
Gross, D. & Harris, P.L. (1988). False beliefs about emotion. International Journal of Behavioral
Development. 11, 475-488.
Gardner, D., Harris, P.L., Ohmoto, M. & Hamazaki, T. (1988). Understanding of the distinction
between real and apparent emotion by Japanese children. International Journal of
Behavioral Development, 11, 203-218.
Olson, D.R., Astington, J.W. & Harris, P.L. (1988). Developing theories of mind: Introduction.
In J.W. Astington, P.L. Harris & D.R. Olson (Eds.) Developing theories of mind. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Waller, G. & Harris, P.L. (1988) Who's going where? Children's route descriptions for peers and
younger children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6, 137-143.
Harris, P.L. (1987). The development of search. In P. Salapatek & L.B. Cohen (Eds.) Handbook
of infant perception. Vol.2, Academic Press, New York.
Harris, P.L., Olthof, T., Meerum Terwogt, M. & Hardman, C.E. (1987). Children's knowledge of
the situations that provoke emotion. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 10,
319-343.
Harris, P.L. (1987). Bringing order to the A-not-B error. Monographs of the Society for Research
in Child Development, 51, (214), 52-61.
Meerum Terwogt, M., Schene, J., & Harris, P.L. (1986). Self-control of emotional reactions by

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young children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 27, 357-366.
Harris, P.L., Donnelly, K., Guz, G.R. & Pitt-Watson, R. (1986). Children's understanding of the
distinction between real and apparent emotion. Child Development. 57, 895-909.
Harris, P.L., Morris, J.E. & Meerum Terwogt, M. (1986). The early acquisition of spatial
adjectives: A cross-linguistic study. Journal of Child Language, 13, 335-352.
Lipian, M. & Harris, P.L. (1986). Thoughts about feelings: the child’s developing conception of
emotion. In J.A. Macfarlane (ed.), Progress in child heath, Vol. 2, 118-132. Churchill
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Harris, P.L. (1985). The origin of search and number skills. In H. Wellman (Ed.) The
development of search ability. L.E.A., Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Harris, P.L. (1985). What children know about the situations that provoke emotion. In M. Lewis
& C. Saarni (Eds.) The socialization of affect, Plenum Press.
Harris, P.L. & Folch, L. (1985). Decrement in the understanding of big among English- and
Spanish-speaking children. Journal of Child Language, 12, 685-690.
Harris, P.L., Guz, G.R., Lipian, M.S. and Man-Shu, Z. (1985). Insight into the time course of
emotion among Western and Chinese children. Child Development, 56, 972-988.
Mapstone, E.R. & Harris, P.L. (1985). Is the English present progressive unique? Journal of
Child Language, 12, 433-441.
Harris, P.L. (1984). Commentary: Landmarks and movement. In C. Sophian (ed.), The origins
of cognitive skills: 18th annual Carnegie symposium on cognition, pp. 113-128. L.E.A.,
Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Taylor, D.A. & Harris, P.L. (1984). Knowledge of strategies for the expression of emotion
among normal and maladjusted boys. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 24,
141-145.
Harris, P.L. (1983). Infant cognition. In J.J. Campos & M.M. Haith (Eds.) Handbook of child
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Harris, P.L. (1983). Children's understanding of the link between situation and emotion. Journal

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of Experimental Child Psychology, 36, 490-509.
Taylor, D.A. & Harris, P.L. (1983). Knowledge of the link between emotion and memory among
normal and maladjusted boys. Developmental Psychology, 19, 832-838.
Harris, P.L. (1982) Cognitive prerequisites to language? British Journal of Psychology, 73,
187-195.
Harris, P.L. & Olthof, T. (1982). The child's concept of emotion. In G. Butterworth & P. Light
(Eds.) Social cognition. Harvester Press, Brighton, Sussex.
Jones, C.J. & Harris, P.L. (1982). Insight into the law of large numbers: A comparison of
Piagetian and Judgement theory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 34A,
479-488.
Harris, P.L., Olthof, T. & Meerum Terwogt, M. (1981). Children's knowledge of emotion.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 22, 247-261.
Harris, P.L., Kruithof, A., Meerum Terwogt, M. & Visser, T. (1981) Children's detection and
awareness of textual anomaly. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 31, 212-230.
Harris, P.L. (1981) Experimenting with children's language: A commentary. British Journal of
Psychology, 72, 223-224.
Harris, P.L. (1980). How children learn to think and feel. New Society, 51, 31st January.
Harris, P.L. & Hampson, S. (1980). Processing information within implicit personality theory.
British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 19, 235-242.
Harris, P.L., Mandias, F., Meerum Terwogt, M., & Tjintjelaar, J. (1980). The influence of
context on story recall and feelings of comprehension. International Journal of
Behavioral Development, 3, 159-172.
Harris, P.L. Olthof, T. and Vos, W.H. (1980). Experimental Onderzoek met Kinderen
(Experimental research with children). In P.L. Harris, J. de Wit & D.J. Bakker.
Methoden van onderzoek en hulpverlening. Swets & Zeitlinger, Holland.
van Hekken, S.M.J., Vergeer, M.M. & Harris, P.L. (1980). Ambiguity of reference and listeners'
reaction in a naturalistic setting. Journal of Child Language, 7, 555-563.
Meerum Terwogt, M., Olthof, T. & Harris, P.L. (1980). Zelfrapportage als bron van
psychologische informatie (Self report as a source of psychological information). In P.L.

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Harris, J. de Wit, & D.J. Bakker, Methoden van onderzoek en hulpverlening. Swets &
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Harris, P.L. (1979). The origins of perception and cognition. In K. Connolly (Ed.) Psychology
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J.J. van der Werff (Eds.) Basisboek ontwikkelingspsychologie. Wolters-Noordhoff BV,
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process). In A. Kooyman & S. Piet (Eds.) Kind en televisie. AMBO, The Netherlands.
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Harris, P.L. & Heelas, P. (1979). Cognitive processes and collective representations. European
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Harris, P.L., MacRae, A. & Bassett, E. (1978). Disambiguation by young children. In R.
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Harris, P.L. & Singleton, W.M. (1978). The child's understanding of measurement. In A.
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Social and Clinical Psychology, 17, 231-235.
Harris, P.L. (1977). The child's representation of space. In G. Butterworth (Ed.) The child's
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Harris, P.L. & Bassett, E. (1977). Discrimination by young infants of stimuli presented
discontinuously. Perception, 5, 73-77.
Harris, P.L., Morris, P.E. & Bassett, E. (1977). Classifying pictures and words. Memory and
Cognition, 5, 242-246.
Naeli, H. & Harris, P.L. (1976). Orientation of the diamond and the square. Perception, 5, 73-77.
Harris, P.L. & Bassett, E. (1976). Reconstruction from the mental image. Journal of
Experimental Child Psychology, 21, 514-523.
Macfarlane, A., Harris, P.L. & Barnes, I. (1976). Central and peripheral vision in early infancy.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 21, 532-538.
Harris, P.L. (1975). Development of search and object permanence during infancy.
Psychological Bulletin, 82, 332-344.
Harris, P.L. (1975) Inferences and semantic development. Journal of Child Language, 2,
143-152.
Harris, P.L. (1975). Objects of Attention. New Behaviour, 24th July, 136-138.
Harris, P.L. & Bassett, E. (1975). Transitive inferences by young children. Developmental
Psychology, 11, 875-876.
Harris, P.L., Le Tendre, J.B. & Bishop, A. (1975). The child's memory for obliques. Perception,
3, 261-265.
Harris, P.L. (1974). Perseverative search at a visibly empty place by young infants. Journal of
Experimental Child Psychology, 18, 535-42.
Harris, P.L., Cassel, T.Z. & Bamborough, P. (1974). Tracking by young infants. British Journal
of Psychology, 65, 345-348.
Harris, P.L. & Macfarlane, A. (1974). The growth of the effective visual field from birth to
seven weeks. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 18, 340-348.

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Harris, P.L. (1973). Eye-movements between adjacent stimuli: an age-change in infancy.
British Journal of Psychology, 64, 345-348.
Harris, P.L. (1973). Perseverative errors in search by young infants. Child Development, 44,
28-33.
Harris, P.L. (1972). Infants' visual and tactual inspection of objects. Perception, 1, 141-146.
Harris, P.L. (1971). Examination and search in infants. British Journal of Psychology, 52,
469-473.